The Jesus Experiment, Part II

I think Chris “Jesus” Ferguson is a genius. I generally try to follow his bankroll management guidelines of never put more than 5% of your bankroll on a table, and get up when you have 10% on the table, and never buy in to a MTT with more than 2% of your bankroll. It’s kept me from going broke. A couple years ago, he asked someone (I think it was Annie Duke) to give him a dollar online so he could turn it into $20000. He lost the first dollar, but he did it with the second dollar he was given.

More recently, he decided to try to do the same thing, but without getting a one dollar donation, he wanted to do it with no money, winning his first money playing freerolls, with the plan of turning his bankroll into $10000.

Anyway, check out this link –

I guess it took him a month to win a freeroll, then he immediately lost the money, then won another freeroll, and went on from there to turn it into 10k in about 16 months. The only time he broke his bankroll requirements was when he first one the freerolls, and didn’t didn’t have the max bankroll requirement to play in the lowest cash games. Once he got up to $50, he never deviated from his requirements.

I wish there was some info about how many hands he played, how many hands he played at each level before moving up, etc.

Anyway, it just goes to show that you can turn nothing into something playing online poker. I hope you and I can do the same.